<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Very neat work, Ed. As the saying goes, one can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many clamps. I suppose if the screws are good enough, the piano could survive most situations without glue on the bass bridge. Susan Ed Foote wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:8CFCBCA49282067-1DDC-35B04@Webmail-d108.sysops.aol.com" type="cite">Greetings, Attached is the picture, and most of us know what is going on. I have, in the past, found numerous bass bridges that had come loose, but that is not what is happening here. I am gluing the bridge down for the first time. A 1933 Steinway M, upon destringing, had this loose bass bridge, and when I unscrewed it, it fell off. There was no glue, and never had been glue. I dampened the surface and a piece of paper wouldn't even stick to it. This is a first for me, and I wonder if anybody else has seen one like this?? Regards, Ed Foote RPT <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html">http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html</a> <center> </center> </blockquote> </body> </html>